The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 140
His elbows rested upon his knees, his head was bowed upon his hands.
Who acts: elbows · What happens: rest, bow · To what, where: knees, head
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elbows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 elbows | nmod:poss |
| 2 | elbows | elbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rested | nsubj |
| 3 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 knees | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knees | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rested | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bowed | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bowed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bowed | aux:pass |
| 11 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rested | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bowed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | Smith's elbows | Smith's knees | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon knee=Location | ||||
| 2 | bow | past · passive | Smith's head | upon Smith's hands | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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